Breloom has actually become much more viable thanks to Arghonaut, and behind a sub it can take down Stratagem as well. It's become a great Pokemon to run. The CAP metagame is truly getting closer and closer to where we want it to be, it's great seeing such variety. All the individual players have individual styles, and it's awesome seeing the effects of that. Can't wait for prolific battlers =P

this is awesome... I've really actually have been seeing fidgit leads been going down, at the start it was used quite a lot, but i guess all those scarf jirachis have been lowering them with arghonauts help...

Surprised to see Fidgit as the Number one. Also good to see Breloom making a comeback.

Also noting that someone actually LED with Argo. More times than Yanmega, who is actually better in CAP.

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I'm not. Fidget leads were everywhere, which is why I've used Taunt Aerodactyl and Specs Starmie leads to put them in their place. Focus Sash Lead Fidgit's seemed not to exist, and every time some cocky Breloom or Jibakutar switched into Specs Surf, they ate 53+% of their health.

Which explains why Starmie is 9th in leads. It was my response to Fidgit lead whoring. Specs Psychic obliterating Revenankh and Arghonaut were perks.

In fact, I consider it a rule to not use it on the ladder and will kick people who are caught completely arrogant of this rule. I'm sure the other moderators who are decent at LC (there are multiple) will do the same.

It's really great to see Argho isn't fulfilling all the horribly negative theorymon surrounding it.

Hmm. Is it just me, or did shieldon usage just randomly drop? You would figure he was used more.

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Shieldon (and Aron to an extent) was pretty much only used to counter Krow, who got a ban. So its no surprise to me.

Its interesting to see Croagunk dropped off a little, or maybe its just that there is more Gligars.

Oak will have dropped due to all the Tyranitars creating a Sand Storm in nearly every battle. Rev probably dropped due to Argh blocking its sweeps to easily. Interesting to see Fidgit hit no. 1 on useage, suppose it combos well with Argh defensively and can set up a lot of useful things.

One other thing I noticed, Wash Rotom is the most popular on CaP. Can't quite see why though.. maybe to beat Strata?

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That would be cool XAct, though I don't know how the formula would work since pokemon are introduced like every month.Almost all the Stunky usage is from me which is cool. I think I'm the only one that used it as a lead, probably because it was the only pokemon on my team who didn't suck as a lead.

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I'm a bit leery about a CAP OU. We've said we follow Smogon's tiers for bannings and unbannings, so if we don't follow that OU, we're opening up a can of worms with things like Lati@s's un-banning and Garchomp's banning. I'm not against making the list for comparison, but it shouldn't be the list we go by.

I'm a bit leery about a CAP OU. We've said we follow Smogon's tiers for bannings and unbannings, so if we don't follow that OU, we're opening up a can of worms with things like Lati@s's un-banning and Garchomp's banning. I'm not against making the list for comparison, but it shouldn't be the list we go by.

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The OU list for CAP would be largely just for entertainment since every non-uber Pokemon can just be used on CAP standard ladder. You already have Garchomp etc. banned as an uber so it wouldn't make any difference if X-Act created an OU list for the curious based on usage